Sheet-metal support or leg.



PATBNTED NOV- 24, 1 903.

C. F. KADE. SHEET METAL SUPPORT 0R LBG.,

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 1, 1902.

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Patented November 24, 1903.

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CHARLES .F. KADE, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR TO ARTHUR F.

WINTER, OF SHEBOYGAN, WISCONSIN.

SHEET-METAL SUPPORT OR LEG.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. '7t5,*107, dated November 24, 1903.

Application filed November 1, 1902. Serial No. 129,746. (No model.)

sheet-metal leg made, preferably, outof sheetsteel, which is light, strong, and durable.

My invention embodies a sheet-metal structure of any desired contour or shape for the purposes mentioned, which is stamped out of a sheetof suitable metal and shapednp by compression between dies.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a side,

view in elevation of the complete device. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of the leg, showinga caster as the support and the means for adjusting and securing the caster. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the sections or flanges which form the upper end of the leg and by which it may be secured to an article to be supported. Fig. dis adetail view of the blank from which the leg is formed. Fig. 5 lsa detail view of the blank from which the footpiece is formed.

In the drawings similar reference designations refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Reference being bad to the drawings, A designates the leg, which is cutfrom a suitable piece of sheet-steel. The requisite blank is shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings, wherein 1 designates the part from which the body of the leg is formed. At the upper end of the body of the blank are formed triangular sections 2 3, from which the upper end of the leg is formed, and at the lower end of the blank are also formed triangular sections 4 5, from which the lower end of the leg is made. This blank is made of such area or size as to supply sufficient material from which to form the leg. Then the blank has been cut out, then by suitable compression between dies the plate 1 is shaped up as required. Then thesections 2 3 are turned over inward and down to horizontal position to provide an end piece extending over the upper end of the leg, and then the sections 5 are turned inwardly to horizontal position and constitute an end plate to the leg. Screw-holes 6 are provided, through which screws may be passed to secure the leg to any object desired. A leg thus made may be utilized wherever it is applicable and serve the purpose satisfactorily; but to serve the purpose even more satisfactorily a foot-piece 7 is provided, as shown in the drawings. This is madefrom a suitable blank, (shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings,) the body of which is adapted to be formed by compression into any selected shape by dies, and the sections 8 9 then turned inward to horizontal position, constituting a top plate to set in alinement with and be properly secured to the end of the leg.

A suitable caster 10 or other like support may be employed in the usual manner in instances where an article may be moved. The stem 11 of the caster is screw-threaded and projected through the plates of the leg and the foot-piece, as indicated, and upper and lower adj usting-nuts 12 are disposed on the stem 11, whereby the article to which the legs are fastened may be made to stand even and firm.

A leg made of sheet-steel is very light and very strong, and owing to contour a number may be packed or nested together, andthus occupy a small space comparatively in transportation.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is- 1. A sheet-metal leg of the character described formed from two blanks, the one blank comprising a body having extensions at opposite ends defined by inwardly-projecting \l-shaped slots, the extensions at one end of the body being larger than at the opposite end, the other blank being for the foot of the leg and having extensions atone end corresponding to those at one end of the main body of the first-named blank.

- 2. A sheet-metal leg of the character described, comprising a body constituting the leg-piece, turned-in horizontal flanges forming the upper end of the leg and turned-in horizontal flanges forming the lower end ofthe leg-piece, and a sheet-metal foot-piece having inwardly-extending horizontal flanges rigidly secured to the lower end of the leg-piece.

3. A sheet-metal leg ofv the character described, comprising a body constituting the leg-piece, turned-in horizontal flanges forming the upper end of the leg and turned-in horizontal flanges forming the lower end of the leg-piece, a sheet-metal foot-piece having inwardly-extending horizontal flanges rigidly secured to the lower end of the leg-piece, and a support formed with a vertical stem ad j ustably projected through the flanges of the foot-piece and lower end of the leg-piece.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. KADE. Witnesses:

P. J. PETERSON, F. H. POLTING. 

